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  • Foxbaroque; Sally Dobson Drops Us A Message, and a New EP!

    Foxbaroque; Sally Dobson Drops Us A Message, and a New EP!

    Even if you were once on our local music circuit but youโ€™ve escaped the wilds of Wiltshire, you are always welcome here! It was lovely to hear from Sally Dobson last week, as she dropped us a message to show off her new project Foxbaroque, and the EP stemmed from it, Calamity Janeโ€ฆโ€ฆ Once a… Read more

  • Song of the Week: Paul Lappin

    Song of the Week: Paul Lappin

    Another wonderful nugget of lonely contemplation from the chillaxed Britpop kahuna, Paul Lappin, formerly of Swindon now residing in the South of France. Unfortunately You makes for our song of the week, and youโ€™ll be drawn into its five minutes of drifting prose and beautiful composition, of that Iโ€™m certain. A man of many talents.… Read more

  • Weekly Roundup of Events in Wiltshire: 23rd – 29th August 2023

    Righty-ho then, this weekโ€™s rodeo roundup of all the lovely fings to Scooby-Doo across Wiltshireโ€™s rolling landscape is rather like when you went on holiday as a nipper and your folks bought you your chosen comicโ€™s summer specialโ€ฆ a bumper edition! Okay, millennials and gen z, youโ€™ll need Google to make any sense of that.… Read more

  • All Aboard for Imberbus on Saturday !

    Since sending out our last Imberbus email earlier this week, we have had several new subscribers to our mailing list, partly due to some advance press coverage yesterday. We therefore thought that we would send the email out again for their benefit and also share with you the answers to a few of the questions… Read more

  • Dylan Smith: Cruel to be Kind

    Dylan Smith: Cruel to be Kind

    Yeah, the title of Dylanโ€™s debut album, Cruel to be Kind could be an insight into how we conduct our reviews, but being as I missed him yet again when he came to the Southgate, I should really be kind to be kind, asides, thereโ€™s nothing in this album to be cruel aboutโ€ฆ. My excuse… Read more

  • Open Mic at the Bell, Great Cheverall, and Other Local Open Mic Nights

    Open Mic at the Bell, Great Cheverall, and Other Local Open Mic Nights

    Who is Mike anyway, and why is he so open?! If I said these four words, in this order: open, mic, cellar, and bar, lots of Devizes folk will be evoked with fond reminiscences of Alan Jones and Richard Ben’s regular sessions down in the basement of the Bear Hotel. Many local musicians cut their… Read more